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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jarod@redhat.com, jogo@openwrt.org, david.heidelberger@ixit.cz,
	maillist-linux@barfooze.de, mikko.rapeli@iki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] uapi glibc compat: Do not check for __USE_MISC
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:59:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1489651152.4195.192.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170312220039.16885-4-hauke@hauke-m.de>

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On Sun, 2017-03-12 at 23:00 +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> __USE_MISC is glibc specific and not available in musl libc. Only do
> this check when glibc is used. This fixes a problem with musl libc.
> ...
> -/* Coordinate with glibc net/if.h header. */
> -#if defined(_NET_IF_H) && defined(__USE_MISC)
> +/* Coordinate with libc net/if.h header. */
> +#if defined(_NET_IF_H) && (!defined(__GLIBC__) || defined(__USE_MISC))

I *really* don't like building up a plethora of knowledge about
specific libc implementations in the kernel. As a general rule, if we
have *anything* that depends on __GLIBC__ then we are Doing It Wrong™.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-16  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-12 22:00 [PATCH 0/4] uapi glibc compat: fix musl libc compatibility Hauke Mehrtens
2017-03-12 22:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] uapi glibc compat: add libc compat code when not build for kernel Hauke Mehrtens
2017-03-13 11:28   ` Mikko Rapeli
2017-03-12 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] uapi glibc compat: fix build if libc defines IFF_ECHO Hauke Mehrtens
2017-03-13 11:28   ` Mikko Rapeli
2017-03-12 22:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] uapi glibc compat: Do not check for __USE_MISC Hauke Mehrtens
2017-03-13 11:29   ` Mikko Rapeli
2017-03-16  7:59   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2017-03-16  8:26     ` Mikko Rapeli
2017-03-17 18:17       ` Hauke Mehrtens
2017-03-12 22:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] uapi/if_ether.h: prevent redefinition of struct ethhdr Hauke Mehrtens
2017-03-13 11:31   ` Mikko Rapeli
2017-03-28 12:01 ` [PATCH 0/4] uapi glibc compat: fix musl libc compatibility Hauke Mehrtens

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